Creative Quotes - page 2

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force ... is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. View quote
Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. View quote
Albert Einstein
If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value-conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity can open up. View quote
C.K. Prahalad
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. View quote
Tadao Ando
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. View quote
Eric Temple Bell
I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world. View quote
Judy Collins
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents. View quote
John Updike
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. View quote
John Updike
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. (W. Somerset Maugham)
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. View quote
Freda Adler
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art. View quote
G. H. Hardy
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. View quote
Carl Rogers
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. View quote
Carl Sandburg
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. View quote
Richard Branson
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. View quote
Kris Kristofferson
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. View quote
Alice Walker
While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process. (Lawrence Lessig)
I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate. View quote
Willa Cather
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit. It is infinitely more than enough to have been used, to have been the rough sketch for some perfected creation. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution. View quote
Bill Hicks